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Order of the Crystalline Tortoise
Walk a baby tortoise one leg at a time across a storm-wrecked island. Find food, gather torn clues and make friends who live inside your crystal shell. At night, move those friends between its openings to fend off threats in this story-led adventure with real-time defense.

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Features
Single-player
Family Sharing
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Planned Release Date: Q2 2027

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About This Game

Walk one leg at a time

Help a very special baby tortoise find its missing parents. Meet a friendly Crab and Snail along the way. 

Press numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 in order to walk, steer with your mouse. Keep an even rhythm as you cross a storm-wrecked beach, find food and look for a safe place to rest.

Bring your friends along

A small crab and a snail join you on the journey. They ride inside your clear crystal shell, where sunlight throws rainbows across the sand. The island and its animals look like a miniature world made from felt, paper and thread.

Guard the shell at night

The camera moves inside the shell when night falls. Watch its openings and drag a friend to the threat: send the crab to drive off gulls and the snail to seal cracks. A crescent moon tracks the night. If a threat gets through, retry that hour.

Follow the torn clues

Find pieces of a poster left behind after the storm. What happened to your parents, and who carried them away? Follow the evidence as you search for your family.

The game is in development. Screenshots show the current opening day and night. Windows and macOS versions are planned; system requirements will be confirmed before release.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

NBD2 is an AI game development studio. As a solo indie dev who is unlikely to ever make a dime from any of my games, there's no other way I could bring my ideas to life.

Order of the Crystalline Tortoise was created using generative AI throughout development, including its game code, 3D models, interface art, sound and text. The models were built by AI agents writing Blender scripts, the poster is drawn by code, and the music and sound effects were synthesized by code, with gull calls from a CC0 field recording. All AI generation took place during development. The game does not generate AI content or code during play or connect to an external AI service.

I recognize AI in game development is an extremely sensitive topic and I appreciate both sides. I only hope the game is fun.

The goal should always be making something that human beings will enjoy.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS: To be announced
    • Processor: To be announced
    • Graphics: To be announced
    • Additional Notes: Windows and macOS versions are planned. OS, processor, memory, graphics and storage requirements will be confirmed after native build testing. Keyboard and mouse required.
    Minimum:
    • OS: To be announced
    • Processor: To be announced
    • Graphics: To be announced
    • Additional Notes: Windows and macOS versions are planned. OS, processor, memory, graphics and storage requirements will be confirmed after native build testing. Keyboard and mouse required.
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
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